<div dir="ltr">Can anyone offer any insights for my problem? Each data set is from 6gb to 13gb in size and we have a compute cluster on site, and even my own workstation is a 12 physical core machine so I am looking for a way to utilise these resources to increase the otherwise very slow data post processing.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 June 2014 09:55, Victor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victor.major@gmail.com" target="_blank">victor.major@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have compiled ParaView with MPI support, searched the internet, looked at examples and I cannot get it to work.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I tried to run it with the following methods:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
1. "Use multicore" setting within the GUI. I set it at 6 and got this during startup</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div>AutoMPI: SUCCESS: command is:</div><div> "/opt/openmpi-1.8.1/bin/mpiexec" "-np" "6" "/usr/local/lib/paraview-4.1/pvserver" "--server-port=45024"</div><div>AutoMPI: starting process server</div>
<div>-------------- server output --------------</div><div>Waiting for client...</div><div>AutoMPI: server successfully started.</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It looks normal.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. Start pvserver with "mpirun -np 6 pvserver" and connect the client manually:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Waiting for client...</div><div>Connection URL: cs://consilience-ssd:11111</div><div>Accepting connection(s): consilience-ssd:11111</div>
<div>Client connected.</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
It looks normal.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The problem is that the output does not look normal. I am trying to display CFD external flow simulation data using a Slice filter and instead of a correct visualization of the flow I get a spotty field as per the image attached. I am also attaching the PV ProcessID screenshot.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What do I need to do to make ParaView render in parallel and deliver correct visualization results?</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Victor</div></div>
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